Smartphone malware evolution revisited: Android next target?

2009 4th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software, MALWARE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-7

  Schmidt, Aubrey Derrick ^a   Schmidt, Hans Gunther ^a   Batyuk, Leonid ^a   Clausen, Jan Hendrik ^a   Camtepe, Seyit Ahmet ^a   Albayrak, Sahin ^a   Yildizli, Can ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALWARES; SMART PHONES; SYMBIAN OS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 77950172440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MALWARE.2009.5403026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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